Tag: supernova

In the latest issue of the journal Nature, astronomers from Stockholm University reveal the origin of a thermonuclear supernova explosion. ...

The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known ...

Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The ...

Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the ...

New chemistry ‘forensics’ indicate that the stone named Hypatia from the Egyptian desert could be the first tangible evidence found ...

AUSTIN — An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used ...

Once thought to function primarily as a storage molecule for genetic information, it is now known that DNA can also ...

A promising method for producing and observing on Earth a process important to black holes, supernova explosions and other extreme ...

It's challenging to make predictions, especially in astronomy. There are however, a few forecasts astronomers can depend on, such as ...

An enormous amount of gravity from a cluster of distant galaxies causes space to curve so much that light from ...